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Take 5: YA Horror 2014
Afterworlds, Amity, Collection Development, Daniel Kraus, Edgar Allan Poe, Horror, Poe, Reader's Advisory, Scott Westerfeld, Take 5
|It’s October, which means everything is pumpkin flavored or scented and you can’t change the channel without running across a horror movie. While I’m not big on horror movies – I haven’t been able to watch them ever since I saw The Ring because if the scary isn’t going to stay inside the TV box […]
August! Such a loaded month…. for public librarians, there is one month left of summer before the range of kids go back to school, while for school librarians, there is days before they return to their libraries and media centers to start the school year…. And yet there are so many good books that […]
Take 5: Sharks!
Anna Banks, Jaws, Matt da le Pena, Meg, Michael Northrop, Of Poseidon, Peter Benchley, Sharks, Steve Alten, Take 5, The Living
|I’m going to continue our Shark Week theme from yesterday, by sharing a Take 5 list with shark books. Technically, two of the books are not really shark books, but they have awesome shark scenes. If you have more titles to add to the list, please do so in the comments. I would hate to […]
Take 5: 5 ARCs I Picked Up at ALA That I Can’t Wait to Read
ARCs, Christina Lauren, Coming Soon, Eric Devine, Nick Lake, Sarah Beth Durst, Take 5, Virginia Bergin
|This year at ALA Annual I learned lots of things, met lots of people, and came back with a ton of ideas I wanted to pitch. But in the end, it always comes back to the books for me and I saw lots of great ones. From rain that will kill you to a book […]
Summer budget running low? Need some quick and easy drop-in programs? Here are five ideas that you can pull off in an afternoon for pennies or less because you most likely already have the supplies. And if YOU don’t, chances are the kids’ department does and will be happy to let you take them off […]
Take 5: Marvelous Manga that Christie’s Tweens and Teens are Reading
Bleach, Dragon Ball, Manga, Naruto, One Piece, Take 5, Yu-Gi-Oh
|Beginning Crowd during our Author Event on FCBD 2014 If you follow me on Twitter or read anything I write regarding teens and tweens, you know that I have a very active community library. Mainly guys, a few girls, but very active tweens and teens. They are addicted to the Makerspaces, including duct tape crafts […]
May is here and we are all gearing up for summer reading, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take a LITTLE time for ourselves…. Here are 5 books that are being published in May that I can’t wait for…. Gabe is having a tough week. Normally the funny kid at the lunch table, he’s on […]
Take 5: My Favorite Friendships
David Levithan, Grasshopper Jungle, John Green, Rachel Cohn, Sarah Dessen, Sarah Rees Brennan, Take 5
|I’m often struck by how beautifully written friendships are in YA. In fact, they are often much more important and detailed than any other personal relationships – dating or family. I suppose it makes sense, since the teen years are a time when we practice separating from our family and are only just learning how […]
Evil governmental oppressors, secrets, spies and deception, a roiling underclass yearning to break out of bondage and one true hero who finds the way to do it – this is the stuff we love in our dystopian novels. But these are not only features in dystopia. We can look to history for plenty of examples […]
Take 5: Entries into Poetry
After The Kiss, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Take 5, Terra Elan McVoy
|Poetry is weird and hard. It’s confusing and vague and boring. Unless it’s not. Here are five easy entries to poetry for teens, in honor of National Poetry Month. 1. After The Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy It looks like realistic romantic teen fiction, it moves like realistic romantic teen fiction, it IS realistic romantic teen […]
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